The Grinch, and a lucky escape

 Strong winds are lashing heavy rain against the windows, certainly not a day to be going out.  I've got an order to collect from Argos, but it can wait until the weather gets better.  It's a CD player for my bedroom, husband was objecting to me playing my Christmas CDs on his player in the lounge 😒 (Grinch!).

I went on our family WhatsApp yesterday to ask if everyone was ok, as I hadn't heard from any of them for the past few days.....turns out I'd somehow inadvertently muted them all!  Ironically, some of them had been asking if anyone had heard from me as I'd been silent for days 😂  You have to laugh!

Niece lives in a terraced house, she and her neighbours share a communal parking area, bordered by an old stone wall.  The wall collapsed a few days ago, burying 6 cars, including niece's, under the rubble - fortunately, nobody was in their cars at the time so no-one injured.  Niece and husband's car is a brand new Motability one (niece is disabled), they've only had it a few weeks.  They've been given a temporary courtesy car which isn't ideal, as niece's wheelchair doesn't fit in it, but at least her husband can get to work and they'll soon be getting another Motability car in replacement.  They just count themselves lucky they weren't in the car at the time, doesn't bear thinking about.

It's going to be sunny all day tomorrow, apparently, so I've got 2 lots of washing to get out on the line - nothing beats the lovely fresh smell of washing dried on the line does it?

I'm going to make and freeze some sausage rolls and some brie, cranberry and stuffing little turnovers for us to have as snacks, or lunches with some salad, over the Christmas period.  That's it as far as Christmas baking is concerned, I stopped making Christmas cakes and mince pies years ago, we do prefer savoury things.  Having said that, I do have 2 boxes of bought mince pies in the larder box under my bed, along with some peanuts and crisps....if I left them in the kitchen, 'someone' (naming no names) would eat them well before Christmas.

The cards that needed posting are all done and sent off yesterday, just the hand delivered ones to do now, I'll get those written today.  Betty had a hand delivered card yesterday, addressed to Betty and her Mum and Dad....we didn't see who delivered it, nor do we know who it is - unfortunately, the signature isn't readable, it says 'love from ----- and Peach - we're assuming Peach is a dog but neither of us know who Peach is or where they live!  Obviously nearby though.  Hopefully, we'll find out soon.  How funny!

We've booked to go to our favourite tearoom for lunch this coming Sunday, they're doing Christmas dinner in a Yorkshire Pudding wrap.  There's a choice of meats etc, you can choose whatever you want in your wrap, I shall have some turkey, veggie sausage, stuffing and cranberry sauce.  The wrap comes with roast potatoes and an individual pot of gravy for dipping on the side....sounds scrummy.

Thank you for all the lovely comments, once again.